ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,462, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SPORE BIOTECHNOLOGIES (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

"Method of detecting the presence of a pathogen in a biological liquid" was invented by Anthony Francois Michel Claude Dieudonne Boulanger (Paris), Sandrine Castelain (Amiens, France), Sandrine Godelieve Agnes Lefranc (Montigny-le-bretonneux, France), Pierre Michel Rene Gauvain (Saint-Piat, France), Florent Jules Adrien Perez (Paris), Sanaa El Messaoudi (Sartrouville, France), Alexandre Antoine Benjamin Marie Banon (Paris), Delphine Stephanie Jeannine Marie-Therese Garsuault (Paris), Tiffany Guedet (Nanterre, France) and Marion Schmitt-Boulanger (Paris).

According to the abstract* releas...